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Pain: A Political History
ISBN: 9781421418407 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. People in chronic pain have always sought relief--and have always been judged--but who decides whether someone is truly in pain? In this history of American political culture, Keith Wailoo examines how pain and compassionate relief define a line between society's liberal trends and conservative tendencies. Tracing the development of pain theories in politics, medicine, law, and society, and battles over the morality and economics of relief, Wailoo points to a tension at the heart of the conservative-liberal divide. Beginning with the advent of a pain relief economy after World War... People in chronic pain have always sought relief--and have always been judged--but who decides whether someone is truly in pain? In this history of... |
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123,09 zł |
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How Cancer Crossed the Color Line
ISBN: 9780190655211 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In the course of the 20th century, cancer went from being perceived as a white woman's nemesis to a "democratic disease" to a fearsome threat in communities of color. Drawing on film and fiction, on medical and epidemiological evidence, and on patients' accounts, Keith Wailoo tracks this transformation in cancer awareness, revealing how not only awareness, but cancer prevention, treatment, and survival have all been refracted through the lens of race.
Spanning more than a century, the book offers a sweeping account of the forces that simultaneously defined cancer as an intensely... In the course of the 20th century, cancer went from being perceived as a white woman's nemesis to a "democratic disease" to a fearsome threat in commu...
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163,80 zł |
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Genetics and the Unsettled Past: The Collision of Dna, Race, and History
ISBN: 9780813552552 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 370 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Our genetic markers have come to be regarded as portals to the past. Analysis of these markers is increasingly used to tell the story of human migration; to investigate and judge issues of social membership and kinship; to rewrite history and collective memory; to right past wrongs and to arbitrate legal claims and human rights controversies; and to open new thinking about health and well-being. At the same time, in many societies genetic evidence is being called upon to perform a kind of racially charged cultural work: to repair the racial past and to transform scholarly and popular opinion...
Our genetic markers have come to be regarded as portals to the past. Analysis of these markers is increasingly used to tell the story of human migrati...
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197,48 zł |
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A Death Retold: Jesica Santillan, the Bungled Transplant, and Paradoxes of Medical Citizenship
ISBN: 9780807857731 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In February 2003, an undocumented immigrant teen from Mexico lay dying in a prominent American hospital due to a stunning medical oversight--she had received a heart-lung transplantation of the wrong blood type. In the following weeks, Jesica Santillan's tragedy became a portal into the complexities of American medicine, prompting contentious debate about new patterns and old problems in immigration, the hidden epidemic of medical error, the lines separating transplant "haves" from "have-nots," the right to sue, and the challenges posed by "foreigners" crossing borders for medical...
In February 2003, an undocumented immigrant teen from Mexico lay dying in a prominent American hospital due to a stunning medical oversight--she had r...
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205,89 zł |
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Three Shots at Prevention: The HPV Vaccine and the Politics of Medicine's Simple Solutions
ISBN: 9780801896729 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In 2007, Texas governor Rick Perry issued an executive order requiring that all females entering sixth grade be vaccinated against the human papillomavirus (HPV), igniting national debate that echoed arguments heard across the globe over public policy, sexual health, and the politics of vaccination. Three Shots at Prevention explores the contentious disputes surrounding the controversial vaccine intended to protect against HPV, the most common sexually transmitted infection. When the HPV vaccine first came to the market in 2006, religious conservatives decried the... In 2007, Texas governor Rick Perry issued an executive order requiring that all females entering sixth grade be vaccinated against the human papill... |
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158,64 zł |
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Katrina's Imprint: Race and Vulnerability in America
ISBN: 9780813547732 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Katrina's Imprint highlights the power of this sentinel American event and its continuing reverberations in contemporary politics, culture, and public policy. Published on the firth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, the multidisciplinary volume reflects on how history, location, access to transportation, health care, and social position feed resilience, recovery, and prospects for the future of New Orleans and the Gulf region. Essays examine the intersecting vulnerabilities that gave rise to the disaster; explore the cultural and psychic legacies of the storm, reveal how the process of...
Katrina's Imprint highlights the power of this sentinel American event and its continuing reverberations in contemporary politics, culture, and public...
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678,34 zł |
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Three Shots at Prevention: The Hpv Vaccine and the Politics of Medicine's Simple Solutions
ISBN: 9780801896712 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In 2007, Texas governor Rick Perry issued an executive order requiring that all females entering sixth grade be vaccinated against the human papillomavirus (HPV), igniting national debate that echoed arguments heard across the globe over public policy, sexual health, and the politics of vaccination. Three Shots at Prevention explores the contentious disputes surrounding the controversial vaccine intended to protect against HPV, the most common sexually transmitted infection. When the HPV vaccine first came to the market in 2006, religious conservatives decried the... In 2007, Texas governor Rick Perry issued an executive order requiring that all females entering sixth grade be vaccinated against the human papill... |
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322,76 zł |
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Dying in the City of the Blues: Sickel Cell Anemia and the Politics of Race and Health
ISBN: 9780807848968 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This groundbreaking book chronicles the history of sickle cell anemia in the United States, tracing its transformation from an "invisible" malady to a powerful, yet contested, cultural symbol of African American pain and suffering.
Set in Memphis, home of one of the nation's first sickle cell clinics, Dying in the City of the Blues reveals how the recognition, treatment, social understanding, and symbolism of the disease evolved in the twentieth century, shaped by the politics of race, region, health care, and biomedicine. Using medical journals, patients' accounts, black... This groundbreaking book chronicles the history of sickle cell anemia in the United States, tracing its transformation from an "invisible" malady to a...
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205,89 zł |
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Pushing Cool: Big Tobacco, Racial Marketing, and the Untold Story of the Menthol Cigarette
ISBN: 9780226794136 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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143,80 zł |
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Genetics and the Unsettled Past: The Collision of Dna, Race, and History
ISBN: 9780813552545 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 370 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Our genetic markers have come to be regarded as portals to the past. Analysis of these markers is increasingly used to tell the story of human migration; to investigate and judge issues of social membership and kinship; to rewrite history and collective memory; to right past wrongs and to arbitrate legal claims and human rights controversies; and to open new thinking about health and well-being. At the same time, in many societies genetic evidence is being called upon to perform a kind of racially charged cultural work: to repair the racial past and to transform scholarly and popular opinion...
Our genetic markers have come to be regarded as portals to the past. Analysis of these markers is increasingly used to tell the story of human migrati...
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696,39 zł |
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Katrina's Imprint: Race and Vulnerability in America
ISBN: 9780813547749 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Katrina's Imprint highlights the power of this sentinel American event and its continuing reverberations in contemporary politics, culture, and public policy. Published on the firth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, the multidisciplinary volume reflects on how history, location, access to transportation, health care, and social position feed resilience, recovery, and prospects for the future of New Orleans and the Gulf region. Essays examine the intersecting vulnerabilities that gave rise to the disaster; explore the cultural and psychic legacies of the storm, reveal how the process of...
Katrina's Imprint highlights the power of this sentinel American event and its continuing reverberations in contemporary politics, culture, and public...
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181,89 zł |
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How Cancer Crossed the Color Line
ISBN: 9780195170177 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In the course of the 20th century, cancer went from being perceived as a white woman's nemesis to a "democratic disease" to a fearsome threat in communities of color. Drawing on film and fiction, on medical and epidemiological evidence, and on patients' accounts, Keith Wailoo tracks this transformation in cancer awareness, revealing how not only awareness, but cancer prevention, treatment, and survival have all been refracted through the lens of race. Spanning more than a century, the book offers a sweeping account of the forces that simultaneously defined cancer as an intensely...
In the course of the 20th century, cancer went from being perceived as a white woman's nemesis to a "democratic disease" to a fearsome threat in commu...
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217,96 zł |
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The Troubled Dream of Genetic Medicine: Ethnicity and Innovation in Tay-Sachs, Cystic Fibrosis, and Sickle Cell Disease
ISBN: 9780801883262 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Why do racial and ethnic controversies become attached, as they often do, to discussions of modern genetics? How do theories about genetic difference become entangled with political debates about cultural and group differences in America? Such issues are a conspicuous part of the histories of three hereditary diseases: Tay-Sachs, commonly identified with Jewish Americans; cystic fibrosis, often labeled a -Caucasian- disease; and sickle cell disease, widely associated with African Americans. In this captivating account, historians Keith Wailoo and Stephen Pemberton reveal how these... Why do racial and ethnic controversies become attached, as they often do, to discussions of modern genetics? How do theories about genetic differen... |
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136,76 zł |
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Medicare and Medicaid at 50: America's Entitlement Programs in the Age of Affordable Care
ISBN: 9780190231545 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. For fifty years, Medicare and Medicaid have stood at the center of a contentious debate surrounding American government, citizenship, and health care entitlement. In Medicare and Medicaid at 50, leading scholars in politics, government, economics, health policy, and history offer a comprehensive assessment of the evolution of these programs and their impact on society -- from their origins in the Great Society era to the current battles over the Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare"). These highly accessible essays examine Medicare and Medicaid from their origins as programs for the elderly...
For fifty years, Medicare and Medicaid have stood at the center of a contentious debate surrounding American government, citizenship, and health care ...
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144,11 zł |
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